Now we’re getting into some deep cuts off e’rebody. Long Island Prime Cuts. The B-sides and the skippers. But how do you skip a song like Maria’s?
The eighth cut off the new album is “Major Minor Minor Major”—a shape-shifting song that announces the chord degrees of the E Major Scale, and features solfege from Sound of Music done in Yankovician parody. The song cycles through the chord degrees using numbers and English names. Shao Kahn, the boss announcer from Mortal Kombat II, makes an appearance, as does the “Continue Sound” from Sonic the Hedgehog. Y’know, just your typical song.
The inspiration for “Major Minor Minor Major” came from our late high school music teacher who used the same mnemonic in band class, though non-melodically, and at high tempi so that it sounded (as it does at the end of the song) like “maj’a min’a min’a maj’a.”
